Director of The Incredibles 2 Brad Bird recently discussed his thoughts on his superhero family merging with The Avengers.
During a live Q&A presented by IMAX and AMC, host Scott Mantz asked director Brad Bird about the likelihood of The Incredibles one day crossing over with the world's current favourite superhero team.
Here's what Bird had to say:
How about we keep these universe separate? And friendly! Friendly relations across the galaxy, we wish them well, they wish us well. But to me, it’s like you have Thanksgiving — you have all these great components to a meal — there’s inevitably the guy who stirs it all together into a mush. And then eats it. And I always go, ‘eeugh.’ Individually, all these things are great! Mushed together, ‘eeugh.’ So I just like them separate and equal and happiness to all.
Bird previously discussed the topic with Fandango, who he told that he’d heard of musings of a potential cross-pollinating of universes, but said he was never approached about implementing Marvel characters into the Incredibles universe.
I’ve heard it discussed, not with me in particular, but I've heard it sort of thrown around a little bit. But at Pixar we've always felt like Marvel is Marvel, and Pixar is Pixar, and Lucasfilm is Lucasfilm. And they serve everyone better, including Disney, if they're separate. If you start crossing them too much it's like when you blend too many colors together, it starts turning into mud. So, that may make a marketing guy's mouth water but I don't think it makes artists excited.
The director also discussed the influence the currently booming superhero genre had on The Incredibles 2 - or rather the lack of it.
I think that if you start getting too inside with it, you're not focusing on what you should focus on, which is the characters in the story.
So, I just kind of went, 'Okay, I'm in this little Incredibles universe.' And that's where I'm gonna stay. I'm not gonna have our characters commenting on DC or Marvel characters. They're kind of in their own universe, and that's the way I like it.
So at the moment it's a no, which is probably for the best as these superhero cinematic universes are only becoming more and more complicated to keep track of.
But what do you think? Would you like to see the two superhero teams collide?
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